[Campus-uconn-staff] mentors

[Sean O'Brien]

E-mails sent out, we'll see how we do.

Also, you may want to check out http://linux.uits.uconn.edu and point 
people to it at the event.


On 10/10/2014 03:23 AM, Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Sean O'Brien <sean.obrien at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Sadly, quite a few of the FOSS folks I knew on campus have jumped ship (last
>> big advocate I knew just got a job at Red Hat).
> --snip--
>> I'll do a little research and reaching out tomorrow, and get back to the
>> list with anything promising.
> There will be a lot of impact to see our alumni in FOSS careers.
> Ignore my earlier comment about abandoning the career panel in the
> curriculum; I think it would be wonderful if we can do this.
>
> Can reach out to your Red Hat, etc friends for the career panel?  If
> it's difficult for them to attend in person, they could attend
> remotely.  Below is the e-mail template I used to send to the last
> career panelist; replace the ${variables} and change everything that
> needs changing.
>
> Thanks,
> Pariksheet
>
>
> SUBJECT:
> Service as a career panelist for Open Source Workshop at UConn on
> Saturday, October 18!
>
> EMAIL:
> Hi ${friend_name},
>
> My name is ${...}
>
> I am a mentor for OpenHatch: http://campus.openhatch.org.  I’m helping
> to run an all-day workshop event introducing students to the tools of
> free/open source software on Saturday, October 18 at UConn; here is
> the publicity website with the schedule and location
> http://uconn.openhatch.org/  I was wondering if you would be
> interested in helping out by volunteering on the
> career panel?  ${two_sentences_about_how_awesome_your_friend_is_at_foss}
>
> Per the schedule, the discussion is scheduled for 11:30 am to 12:00pm,
> so that at lunch students would have the opportunity to approach you
> with questions. Career panelists generally will be people who have
> ever been funded to work on open source software.  We may include some
> remote panelists, but we’re hoping to get as many in-person people as
> we can get.  There's zero preparation you need to do, but if you'd
> like to see how we structure the panel or some of the questions you
> might be asked, you can do so here:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Career_Panel
>
> Please feel free to pass this along to others who you think might be
> interested.  So far > 50 science and engineering students have signed
> up to attend for the workshop (the classroom has space for 100).
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Best wishes,
> ${your_name}
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